the books i found at home in Lupon

made me realize that a lot of them have gone UNREAD. so i brought some over just so i could get around to reading them here during my free time. the others, they would have to wait till i get a place of my own where i could set up a real library for me. by then, i'd retire and be the librarian of my own library (hehe, why not?)!




"The Green Book" is about exploring the idea that democraccy as we know it is not the true democracy. I got this from a dormmate.


"Main Street" is considered a part of the classics. I haven't then formed an interest in anything I can hardly pronounce, much less in anything i can't read in silence.




This is a page from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy." I found the book outrageous, hilarious even because I happened to have a teacher who was so big on postmodernity. this book certainly qualifies because it exemplifies everything that a writer shouldn't do. (some of the chapters are just a sentence-long. some of the sentences even are not at all sentences.)



"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is a book about death but surprisingly, after having read this, I felt very comforted. It must have been because of the last line in the book which goes: "But soon we shall die and the memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the ony meaning."